Shakai Minshū-tō

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Shakai Minshū-tō
社会 民衆 党
Social Democratic Party
Party presidency ( sōsai) Abe Isoo
founding December 5, 1926
resolution July 1, 1932
Headquarters Tokyo

The Shakai Minshū-tō ( Japanese 社会 民衆 党 English Social Democratic Party ) was a political party in Japan in the period before the Second World War . Among the three most important proletarian parties in Japan at the time, the Shakai Minshū-tō took a right-wing position.

The party was founded on December 5, 1926 by the Japanese Labor Federation (Sōdōmei), other trade unions and the Independent Labor Association, an organization of moderate left intellectuals. Abe Isoo was elected chairman of the party. Suzuki Bunji, Nishio Suehiro, Akamatsu Katsumaro , Shimanaka Yuzō, and Kagawa Toyohiko were members of the party's central committee . The members who formed the new party had belonged to the Labor Farmer Party, which opposed the inclusion of leftists in the latter party. The Sōdōmei and another union withdrew from the Labor Farmer Party on October 24, 1926. However, just four days after its inception, the new party suffered its first split as left-wing socialists split up and formed the Japan Labor Farmer Party.

In March 1927, the General Federation of Japanese Peasant Unions was founded as the party's agricultural wing (Japanese: Nihon Nomin Kumiai Sodomei ). A women's organization affiliated with the party, the Women's Social League, was founded in November 1927. In July 1928 she changed her name to the Social Democratic Women's League.

On the Chinese issue, the party opposed the policies of the Japanese government, demanding recognition of the Nanjing government and promotion of the Three Principles of the People by Sun Yat-sen . In May 1927 the Shakai Minshū-tō sent Miyazaki Ryusuke and Matsuoka Komakichi to Shanghai , where they met with Chiang Kai-shek . A solidarity agreement between the Shakai Minshū-tō and the Kuomintang was signed.

Miyazaki Ryusuke left the party in 1929 and founded the National Democratic Party.

In the 1930 national elections, the party won two seats.

The party merged with the National Labor-Farmer Masses Party in July 1932 and formed the Shakai Taishūtō .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d George M. Beckmann, Genji Okubo: The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945 . Stanford University Press , 1969, pp. 101-102 .
  3. ↑ a b Seiyei Wakukawa: Japanese Tenant Movements, in Far Easterm Survey . tape 15 , February 13, 1946, p. 40-44 .
  4. ^ Vera C. Mackie: Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Fender, Labor Other Activism, 1900-1937 . Cambridge University Press , 2002, pp. 139 .
  5. ^ Arthur Morgan Young: Imperial Japan, 1926-1938 . W. Morrow & Co, 1938, p. 43 .
  6. ↑ Stephen S. Large: Showa Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1926–1989 . Routledge , 1998, pp. 121 .
  7. ↑ Stephen S. Large: Showa Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1926–1989 . Routledge , 1998, pp. 122 .
  8. ^ George M. Beckmann, Genji Okubo: The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945 . Stanford University Press , 1969, pp. 192 .
  9. ^ Vera C. Mackie: Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Fender, Labor Other Activism, 1900-1937 . Cambridge University Press , 2002, pp. 132 .